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Top IT Areas You Need to Check to Strengthen Your Cybersecurity

CyberSecurity Insiders

Today, technological advances have seen a rise in cyber security threats globally. That is why most companies hire professional information security services to mitigate the risks arising from data breaches. Besides, cybercriminals are becoming craftier with sophisticated technology. Data Security. Human Resources.

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Log4J: What You Need to Know

Adam Levin

The entire technology industry received a sizable lump of coal in their collective stocking earlier this week in the form of two major security vulnerabilities in a widely-used software tool. Here’s a quick breakdown of what it means for internet users. What is Log4J? What can the average internet user do?

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Kaseya Left Customer Portal Vulnerable to 2015 Flaw in its Own Software

Krebs on Security

The attackers exploited a vulnerability in software from Kaseya , a Miami-based company whose products help system administrators manage large networks remotely. Six years later, Kaseya’s customer portal was still exposed to the data-leaking weakness. The Kaseya customer support and billing portal. Image: Archive.org.

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The Implications of the Uber Breach

Security Boulevard

This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M Outside of technology, there is the element of human error and risk.

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Data Protection in the Digital Transformation Era

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With more and more organizations embracing digital transformation and accelerating their pace to digitize every piece of information, they become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks and data breaches. In a nutshell, no matter it’s data-at-rest or data-in-motion , it should be encrypted regardless of its state.

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CIA elite hacking unit was not able to protect its tools and cyber weapons

Security Affairs

A CIA elite hacking unit that developed cyber-weapons failed in protecting its operations, states an internal report on the Vault 7 data leak. “CIA has moved too slowly to put in place the safeguards that we knew were necessary given successive breaches to other US Government agencies. .”

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools.